Smith was the Social Credit member of the British Columbia legislature for North Peace River from 1966 to 1979. He was the speaker of the house from March 1976 but was forced to resign from that position in March 1978, when he was criticized following the appointment of his former secretary, Barbara Pennock, to the auditor general's office. He married Miss Pennock the following August.
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